SemanticInteroperabilityfor Better Healthand SaferHealthcare

This report was prepared by the SemanticHEALTH project, a Specific Support Action funded by the EuropeanUnion 6th R&D Framework Programme (FP6). SemanticHEALTH developed a longer-term research anddeployment roadmap for semantic interoperability. Its vision is to identify key steps towards realising semanticinteroperability across the whole health value system, thereby focusing on the needs of patient care, biomedicaland clinical research as well as of public health through the re-use of primary health data.Partners in the SemanticHEALTH project were: empirica Communication and Technology Research, Germany(coordinator), University of Manchester, United Kingdom, University College London, United Kingdom, WHOClassifications and Terminology, Switzerland, University of Saint Etienne, France, ESKI - National Institute forStrategic Health Research, Hungary, WHO Family of International Classifications Collaborating Centre in theNordic Countries, Sweden, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.